Jewish date: 28 Kislew 5770 (Parashath MiqQeṣ).
Today’s quasi-holidays: Cat Herders Day, National Lemon Cupcake Day, Esperanto Day.
Worthy cause of the day: “Stop Birth Defects and Cancer From Environmental Pollution - The Petition Site”.
Aaron
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
“Learn Not To Speak Esperanto”
Greetings.
Jewish date: 28 Kislew 5770 (Parashath MiqQeṣ).
Today’s quasi-holidays: Cat Herders Day, National Lemon Cupcake Day, Esperanto Day.
Worthy cause of the day: “Stop Birth Defects and Cancer From Environmental Pollution - The Petition Site”.
In honor(?) of Esperanto Day, today’s weird thing is “Learn Not To Speak Esperanto”, which deals with everything wrong with Esperanto, Earth’s most popular artificial language. Esperanto was intended as an universal language, but so far it only has about a million speakers, mostly idealists and science-fiction authors who cannot be bothered to learn or invent a better language. Esperanto has also been criticized for everything from its choice of vocabulary to its grammar to implied sexism. Enjoy, share the weirdness, and invest your language-learning effort and time in Hebrew, which is 50,000 times cooler than Esperanto and has the unbeatable boast of being the native language of the Hebrew Bible.
Aaron
Jewish date: 28 Kislew 5770 (Parashath MiqQeṣ).
Today’s quasi-holidays: Cat Herders Day, National Lemon Cupcake Day, Esperanto Day.
Worthy cause of the day: “Stop Birth Defects and Cancer From Environmental Pollution - The Petition Site”.
Aaron
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You're being unfair here.
Take a look at http://www.lernu.net
Esperanto works! I’ve used it in speech and writing - and sung in it - in about fifteen countries over recent years.
Indeed, the language has some remarkable practical benefits. Personally, I’ve made friends around the world through Esperanto that I would never have been able to communicate with otherwise. And then there’s the Pasporta Servo, which provides free lodging and local information to Esperanto-speaking travellers in over 90 countries. In the past few years I have had guided tours of Berlin and Milan and Douala in Cameroon in the planned language. I have discussed philosophy with a Slovene poet, humour on television with a Bulgarian TV producer. I’ve discussed what life was like in East Berlin before the wall came down, how to cook perfect spaghetti, the advantages and disadvantages of monarchy, and so on.
As you probably know that Zamenhof himself knew Hebrew.
The Esperanto movement sees this delightful tongue as an auxiliary language. Indeed,a knowledge of Esperanto can helppeople to learn other languages.
Good luck to Esperanto :)
Many people do not realise that Esperanto is now a living language!
You can see this at http://www.lernu.net
Besides idealists and lazy science-fiction writers, you forgot to mention musicians, railway workers and Nobel Prize winners. Not to mention Boy Scouts and Girl Guides, chess and go players, atheists, buddhists, catholic, etc, stamp collectors, blind people, environmentalists...
Ĝis!
Bernardo Verda
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